Dynamite-cartridge-loading machine.



A. PERSON. DYNAMITE CARTRIDGE LOADING MACHINE.

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APPLIOATION IIL'ED MAR. 17, 1906.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

AUGUST PERSON, OF NETCO'NG, NEW JERSEY.

DYNAMITE-GARTRIDG-E-LOADING- MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed March 17,1906. Serial No. 306,586.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST PERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Notcong, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dynamite- Cartridge-Loading' Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a machine for loading cartridges with dynamite or powder and refers to a machine that loads cartridges of paper or card board and a machine that embodies mechanism to present and withdraw the cartridges to the loading mechanism.

The device still further embodies a crimper device thatturns over and closes the open end of the paper shell to prevent the escape of the contents.

The invention furthermore is designed to rovide a rotating shuttle that alternately feeds the shells or cartridges to the loading mechanism and the crimper, this shuttle also having a reciprocating motion.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation with the crimper mechanism removed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine with the crimper mechanism in position.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the shuttle with one of the arms partly broken away, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the lower end of the machine showing the crimping mechanism. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5, 5, in Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a section on line 6, 6-, in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7, in Fig. 2. Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 are sections on lines 8 and 9 respectively in Fig. 2. Fig. 10 is a top View of a portion of Fig. 7. Figs. 11 and 12 are broken views of the cartridge showing the steps through which it passes until it is crimped.

I employ in constructing the machine, a suitable casing 10 that is provided at its top with the side pieces 11, these side pieces supporting a transversely arranged powder box 12 which, as shown in Fig. 1 is constantly supplied with powder or dynamite by means of the chute 13 which'is fastened to the side pieces 11 in any usual way, but preferably by means of the bolts 14 and the slots 15, see Figs. 1 and 2.

Near the lower end on one side of the uprights is a pin 16 which pivots the two arms 17 of the shuttle. These arms having a lid 18 fastened by means of the hinges 19 and prevented from accidental displacement by the springs 20.

A series of alined perforations hold the paper shells or cartridges 21 in the position ready for loading and for crimping.

A spring 22 fitting into a notch 1n each of the arms holds the shuttle in a' horizontal position, but yields when the shuttle is manually operated.

In the rear of one of the arms 17 is atransverse bar 23 being actuated on either side by a head 24 sliding on an abutting piece 25, the cam surface 26 tending to throw the rod 23 forward, when the lever 27 with which the head 24 is integral is raised by pressure on the foot lever 28.

A spring 29 and the bolt 30 tend to withdraw these parts to their normal positions, when the pressure on the foot lever 28 ceases.

When the shuttle is advanced, as described, the arm 17 is prevented from rotation when it is advanced by passing between the two blocks 31 on the side piece 11, and being held rigid, places the open end of the cartridge over the spout 32 which has a tapered outside surface, so as to make a tight fit, this spout being arranged in a perforation 33.

The series of spouts coincides with the number of cartridges to be filled, and in line with these spouts is a series of plungers 34, these plungers being rigid and held in a cross-piece 35.

The cross-piece 35 is removably attached by means of the catches 36 and the pins 37, to a cross head 38, this cross head sliding on the rods 39, on the side frames and adapted to be operated by the bar 40 either manually 46 operating the agitators 47 to prevent the powder or dynamite from becoming caked and always insuring a free flow thereof.

The tautness of the chain is regulated by the pulleys 44 which are arranged in the slots 11 in the side pieces 11.

To one side of the machine is journaled a shaft 48 rotating in the side pieces 19 and being operated by a handle 50. Near the opposed ends of the shaft 48 are the cams 51 which, when the handle 50 is operated, throw by means of the rollers 52, the brace 53 and the shaft 5%, the ends 55 of a cross piece 56 against the pressure of a. returned spring 5% The cross piece 56 as will be seen from Figs. 2 and 9 has a series of funnel shaped perforations 58 through the back end of which are adapted to pass the plungers 6-1.

\Vhen the foot lever 28 has been depressed to throw the shuttle forward on the rod 16, the cartridges 21 in the loading part of the machine are tight up against the nozzle and the loaded shells 21 are nearly in contact with this funnel shaped opening 58 and when the handle is operated, these funnel shaped openings 58 compress the end of the cartridge as shown at 21 in Fig. 11.

The operation of the handle that compresses the end of the cartridge, also operates a pair of cams 59, that for part of their surface are identical with the cams 51, but after the cams 51 have completed their throw, the portion 60 of the cams 59 throws the rollers 61, the clips 62 and the cross bars 63 forward. This cross bar (33 holds the plungers Set by means of the pins (36 and this operation forces in the end of the compressed cartridge until it assumes the position shown at 21 in Fig. 12. A spring 65 tends to return the plungers Get when the handle is released.

\Vhen it is desired to operate the machine, the arm of the shuttle that is in front of the crimper is filled with empty shells, by raising the lid 18 and after the lid is replaced, it is rotated half way until it is in front of the loading device, the shells that have been loaded, having by this step been carried around in front of the crimper. \Vhen the shuttle is advanced the operation of the bar 40 and therefore the plungers 34- fills the shells to be loaded, and the operation of the handle 50 by reason of the mechanism above described, crimps the loaded shells. On the withdrawal of the shuttle by reason of releasing the foot lever 28, the criinped shells are removed, empty shells put in their places and when the shuttle again completes a half rotation, the same process is repeated.

In this way I have devised a machine that expeditiously and simply loads and crimps cartridges in multiple and also provided a machine in which a steady flow of powder is assured, and in which danger of explosion is reduced to a minimum.

W hen the shuttle is advanced it can be locked when the crimping mechanism is operated, by reason of the element 67 forcing outward the end 68 of the lever that is pivoted in the bearings 69, thus pushing the lock '70 in behind the shuttle to prevent its return, until the crimping is completed and at the same time relieving the pressure on the foot lever 28.

Having thus described my invention, wh at I claim is 1. In a cartridge loading machine, a powder box having a series of plungers reciprocating through it and in line with a series of perforations, a series of agitators in the powder box, a shaft supporting the agitators, a pulley on the shaft, a pulley on the machine frame, a chain on the pulleys, and a set of oppositely faced pawls on the pllunger reciprocating means vto engage the 01ml].

In a cartridge loading machine, a powder box having a set of plunger-s passing through it, a pair of arms arrangei'l tangentially on a pivot and adapted to be swung in line with the plungers 011 the powder box, a pin on which the arms swing, the arms rotating and also bein adapted to slide on the pin, means for holding cartridges in the arms, a bar arranged to be in the rear of an arm in line with the powder box, and a lever to force the arms along the pivotal pin and toward or away from the powder box.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, l have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of March 1906.

AUGUST PERSON.

lVitnesses E. A. FELL, Emma KING. 

